i love my job!

where else do you get oven-fresh walnut-mango-pumpkin muffins with cream-cheese icing delivered to your desk??

pet peeve:

the time and effort it takes to undo your belt before you go to the bathroom.

and also,
i'm not sure if anyone even saw the bulletin i posted, but there is a supper fundraiser tonight at Gateway Resources for Garret Froese, if anyone is around. It's from 5-7 so hopefully a lot of people come out.

running man

i keep forgetting to blog about this. There is this guy at the gym, i'm pretty sure he's from germany, and from the time i get there until the time i leave he rides one of the bikes with a fury i've never seen in my life! His arms are flailing wildly, he's sweating profusely, his face is contorting into hiLARious faces; it is just so entertaining. At first i just tried not to stare, but then i really wanted to laugh at him. I'm sure he's a really sweet guy, and maybe he's never seen himself in a mirror-although last time he tried running, and for those of you that have seen that friends episode where rachel is embarrassed of phoebe's running style, it was worse than that. His arms were again flailing wildly, there were face contortions, and it was JUST HILARIOUS. but there is a mirror on the opposite wall from the treadmills, so i'm pretty sure he sees himself. just no shame i guess. i say good for him.

I finally won!!!

Ok so really this might show how lamo my life has become, BUT. I am not ashamed. Every morning we wake up at 7:10 to listen to "name that tune" on the eagle, and i've gotten through once as the wrong caller, and once i had the wrong song. But toDAY, I got it all right. and i won lunch at subway. but i can't win again for 30 days. but i will PRObably still listen anyways. Oh and the song was Hey Jude (Beatles). The clip they played was in the middle of all the "hey jude"s they play at the end of the song, just that tiny bar in between. aren't you impressed?

"Don't just pretend that you love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Stand on the side of good. Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other........When God's children are in need, be the one to help them out....If people persecute you because you are a Christian, don't curse them; pray that God will bless them. If they are sad, share their sorrow. Live in harmony with each other. Don't try to act important, but enjoy the company of ordinary people. And don't think you know it all! Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Do things in such a way that everyone can see you are honorable. Do your part to live in peace with everyone, as much as possible."

Not many things are more convicting than that right there. I am definitely guilty of all of this stuff over the past weeks. I struggle with this: i want to be "real", and therefore i don't even want to pretend that i love people when i don't. But here's my kick in the pants: God doesn't say anywhere that it's better to show i don't like people than to pretend i love them, he wants me to really love them. BUT IT'S SO HARD. Harder still when you don't want to love people. Buuuut if I wanted the same thing God wants, i would do it anyway. Urrrrgh. *Stop! i'ts too late, i'm really frustrated* (song lyrics popped into my head)
Anyways, i just haven't really felt like a good person for awhile. I have moments when i am good, or do good things, but as a whole person, i don't think i am all that good. I don't even mean well all of the time. Wellllll this has been pretty personal. I would like to stop delving into my inner self now.

thinking up to now

annie wrote a post recently about how Christianity is about not having all the answers and being okay with that. I have been learning that slowly for a couple of years already, even though at first i really fought it thinking that if i couldn't answer all the questions i wasn't "strong enough" in my faith. It's is really refreshing and full of grace that i realize that isn't the case. If you could answer all the questions, you would hypothetically have reached the peak of your learning, and that's not my understanding of Christianity. To my knowledge, we can never know everything, the ins and outs of God, Jesus, this world, the next, all aspects of God's creation and all the whys. It feels like falling back on a soft pillow knowing that it's okay to not have all the answers. That's what faith is. Thank you Jesus.

why is my blog pink

you know how on calculators there is that M+ button? i don't know how to get rid of that memo-i just did it. I JUST FIGURED IT OUT. i have Never in my whole life known how to get rid of the memory, like which one of those M~ish buttons was it?? I usually just pressed a bunch of buttons until it went away. i even did it like a minute ago! but now, just now when i was writing this, i pressed M+ and then i pressed MC and it went away. i'm so pumped right now. well i accomplished my learn something new today. Yessssssssssssssss.

new music

In my CD player right now: new Killers cd, playing for the 5th time today. it is rad.
Phil got a raise! He'll be making commission now. and we'll be buying a yacht. okay his raise wasn't that big.
Yesterday me and phil and eric hopped on our bmx's and rode to dairy queen because phil felt he needed to have a pumpkin pie blizzard. WIERDest blizzard ever. but i almost liked it more than pumpkin pie. it was a superfun time.
and you'll be able to hear eric coming from a mile away if he's riding his bmx...